Who We Are

In 2002, a group of colleagues at Immunex, a local biotechnology company, decided to start a foundation focused on the Puget Sound region and built on the company’s flourishing culture of interdisciplinary expertise, creativity and collaboration. It was set up as a Collaborative Funding Model: It’s a new order of business best described as philanthropy with wide rather than deep pockets, capturing the smaller donations of many individuals and leveraging them into larger, more transformative grants.

10 years and two name changes later, Sustainable Path is a successful 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization. At the heart of our mission is the recognition of the interconnected nature of systems in our world and the vital need to work together on our path into the future.

Impotence: millions of the world men are affected

From their data, American scientists found that about 18 million men between 40 and 70 years of age suffer from erectile dysfunction in the US. Urologists from Los Angeles, USA have transferred this calculation to the local conditions: According to this, four to six million of all men are affected. In order to estimate the frequency of potency problems in men, scientists had long been dependent on a study from the 1940s. Recent, scientifically acknowledged studies have shown that increasing age and certain chronic diseases increase the risk of becoming impotent. Read more on these pages...